skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how the person that was running “xz” is doing. Hope he’s doing okay mentally after being thrown into the spotlight by the shit stain of a person(s) behind the “jia tan” and et al aliases
Which of the suggested "Steps to help" would have helped prevent the xz infiltration? For a single-maintainer project, adding bureaucracy can only make things worse.
What??

You mean it is possible to render openstreetmap tiles without a computer language with an ultra-complex syntax which is beyond toxic for any sane mind? (not to mention the grotesque and absurd technical cost of the compiler).

ahah.
And what has it got to show for in return? A hyper PC chatbot who's 50% response is "It is important to note racial injustices..." in response to every damn question.
Defending the city: An overview of defensive tactics
Also many european countries are not actively fighting a war. I do not really think it was the right decision to ban RT what are they scared of?
'A Quick (Battle) Field Guide to the New Culture Wars'

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/03/06/a-quick-battle-field-g...

Less about the specifics of the battles being mentioned, but rather:

1. Battles can be real even if they don't involve actual physical fighting. If I, like the author of this post, am a pacifist, it's best if I try to stay disengaged or uninvolved.

2. Many people play a certain role in a battle, and it's helpful to understand what role a person is playing as you interact with them. That is, are they a soldier, a general, or a diplomat?
Clearly, law based on US definitions of terms is the only way to be free.
Thanks, I'm happy to be corrected.

> making a confusing mess of things.

Which seems to be the prevailing state of discourse about the matter of DEI. If I may add a reflection, maybe it was just relatively easier sociologically to recognise the injustices and inequalities that feminism decried.
That's just Google Search with a different skin.
Well, like it’s just your opinion, man… Opinions are like asses, everyone has their own.
I stand corrected.

I still despise the HN policy of "no criticism of tech CEOs" whether official or otherwise.

Try to say something bad about Steve Jobs? Nah that's not "curious conversation".

Whatever.
What does that mean?

I work in industry.

Is my my tech lead an HR person? My manager? My VP? My Board? My majority shareholders? If not, why is a faculty professor an HR person?
"The only middle-eastern democracy"
> Without a Wayland story, the BSDs will really end up dying, at least as desktop systems.

Good news then, FreeBSD already has working Wayland and NetBSD is working on it. Granted, I think OpenBSD stands out without a Wayland plan, but maybe I'm wrong there.
> I'd suggest that unless you have very atypical habits that put you in conflict with bicycles very often and cars very rarely, you are worrying about the wrong thing.

While you would be correct if only considering risk of death, this doesn't tell us anything about the incidence of non-fatal pedestrian-cyclist interactions and what the outcomes are. It would be perfectly rational to care more about cyclists if it was 100x more likely than a car crash and still carried a signifigant risk of injury, even if the risk of death is extremely low.

To be clear I actually agree with you that cars are still likely the higher risk, just pointing out a limitation in your data.
How is that even legal? Don't such practices violate the Digital Single Market?
NetBSD did change their 'logo; to a single flag years ago. And I heard the same also.
Deep learning the cis-regulatory code for gene expression in selected plants
S3 if you want more pins and fast

C3 if you don't, and are OK with RISC-V

PICO 3v2 otherwise.
I understand what you're getting at, but equating wage inflation with price inflation would be a mistake that would lead to some nonsensical results.

That is, if you only look at wage inflation, it would mean that you can never factor in productivity improvements to how much more people can buy with their money.
the attitude remindes me of maintaining game-servers and looking out for cheaters; once we had a handful of folks looking out for cheaters, it turned the community against itself calling everybody a cheater...
i think it is good to be cautious; but overall it's the same cat and mouse game we've seen before.
i can only say good luck on not letting it stress you out second guessing other folks actions and intent - and hope we continue writing code for humans to read vs the cryptic, obstrufcated, even "elegant" code (not to dive into the skill issue rabbit hole lol)
5.4% is a solid return. Given that the treasury department has initiated treasury buybacks, it's a solid guarantee that rates are not going anytime lower according to their own calculations perhaps even throwing in the towel about trying to fight inflation.

S&P has overshot even the most optimistic projects of 2023 by over 15(?)% and Apple is only going up due to buybacks.

No wonder Buffett is selling his apple shares and putting them into T bills and notes.
>>Stalin was a US ally<<

Oh boy.
Seems just being aware of it. Doesn’t hurt to have people be more alert. Although that alertness can quickly become fear and anxiety.

Which can eventually evolve into paranoia.
RL can be massively disappointing, indeed. And I agree with you (and with the amazing post I already referenced [1]) that it is hard to get it to work at all. Sorry to hear you have been disappointed so much!

Nonetheless, I would personally recommend even just learning the basics and fundamentals of RL. Beyond supervised, unsupervised, and the most-recent and well-deservedly hyped semi-supervised learning (generative AI, LLMs, and so on), reinforcement learning indeed models the learning problem in a very elegant way: an agent interacting with an environment and getting feedback. Which is, arguably, a very intuitive and natural way of modeling it. You could consider backward error correction / propagation as an implicit reward signal, but that would be a very limited view.

On a positive note, RL has very practical sucessful applications today - even if in niche fields. For example, LLM fine-tuning techniques like RLHF successfully apply RL to modern AI systems, companies like Covariant are working on large robotics models which definitely use RL, and generally as a research field I believe (but I may be proven wrong!) there is so much more to explore. For example, check Nvidia Eureka that combines LLM to RL [2]: pretty cool stuff IMHO!

Far from attempting to convince you on the strength and capabilities of DRL, just recommending folks to not discard it right away and at least give it a chance to learn the basics, even just for an intellectual exercise :) Thanks again!

[1] https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html

[2] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/eureka-robotics-research/
I bought a CURB Energy monitor about 6 years ago. Does anyone know if it's possible to flash open source firmware on it? It only has a cloud integration, but I would really like to hook it to to home assistant.
From the linked tweet: "Yann LeCun confirms that Meta spent $30 billion on a million NVIDIA GPUs"
What are you doing if not trolling? Do you think this is a competition? What do you think the prize is? You do realize there's no audience here, right? No one is paying attention to this thread any more.
> without a complete reworking of cellular service

There is a whole world, besides the US.

But it doesn't matter because there would be no apps anyway.
Exceeded by Apple's stock buyback then, $110B.
I would describe this as a motte and bailey: using the failure of peace processes to advance the claim that any call for Palestinian freedom is genocidal. Although even the “motte” in this case is tenuous, since preventing the recognition of a Palestinian state has been an explicit goal of Israeli and U.S. foreign policy.

Honestly not even sure what to say about the second paragraph, other than that “implacable religious and ethnic hatred” is definitely a deeply held Western value. We don’t have a monopoly on it, but the idea that we are the uniquely moral ones, while all those other people are just motivated by hatred… sheesh.
Did you know that prospective faculty also have to write a statement about their research, teaching, and service when they apply for a job? Is that also conspicuously performatively doing the right thing in those job responsibilities?
Do you really think say if you listen to US MSM you will make up your mind correctly?. They are constantly making up stuff and omitting facts to influence public opinion.
xkds's opinions are always right; they are just not always correct.
Apparently as far as I learned from a lawyer the answer is yes. If you are not acting or planning to act on it what you described is protected under free speech.
The point is not that lots of companies run around making things people don't want and go bankrupt.

The point is that's what would happen, and because of that, companies focus on making things people actually do want.

Look at what happened the Facebook stock over the last few years as they rebranded to Meta and started spending wildly. The market whipped them into shape, and rewarded them handsomely.
It’s not just about cost: if you read about the topic you will find many arguments that bollards shouldn’t be placed because they endanger motorists — even though they would make pedestrians safer. The article is challenging the implicit prioritization of motorist safety over pedestrian safety that underlies such a judgment.
That's right. I need to do a soul search after I am done with my job search.
There are a boatload of bad programmers. Does that make programming bad?
RT France was still available online after the broadcast ban, but it was forced to move out of France in 2023 after the French government froze its bank accounts. From what I've read, the rt website is also unavailable in France without using a VPN with a proxy outside of the France and a number of other EU countries.
Very good point . Another road in Fremont , ca installed plastic bollards but the traffic was 50-65 mph. Also the bollards prevented street cleaning from clearing debris so cyclists were forced to ride with traffic
I assume that police traffic enforcement was mostly about collecting speeding fines, and most of the other enforcement (DUI, reckless driving, etc.) was just a side-effect of that. Now that we have automated speed cameras the police are pulling back on all of it.
That’s production, not inflation
The age old question, "Who will watch the watchmen?"
This is the correct answer. I think people are approaching this emotionally. The problem is if you start infringing on it there simply is no end.
LLMs will change their minds today. Most major ones can change their minds on subsequent generations within the same context (“I’m sorry, my previous answer was incorrect,..”), and the biggest ones can change their mind mid-answer (mostly observed with GPT4).
weird, today i researched different translations for both of these. which ones are your favorite?
Indeed; and if you read that article it says that current Wayland compositors depend heavily on Linux infrastructure, and have not yet accepted patches to support NetBSD. Everything Wayland on the BSDs is in the "one guy faffing about to see if he can get it working" stage. Unless/until the Wayland project starts mainlining BSD support, or the BSD projects have robust parallel maintenance of the core Wayland packages and compositors, BSD as a desktop system is dead in the water.
TSMC says Arizona fab is now ahead of schedule
Sony and Apollo in Talks to Acquire Paramount
Yann is not a CFO. If I buy a house tomorrow, I don't just consider it a massive one-day expense. They will amortize the cost over the useful life of the hardware.
For corporate, it makes almost no sense to do the monkey dance to try to overcome a PIP unless you’re close to your next vesting period.

The way it works is they give you a choice when you are put on PIP to either take the severance - in my case $40K - and “leave immediately” or try to work through the PIP.

If you fail the PIP you get one third of the severance amount.

You can take that or dispute it. If you dispute it you get half the third.

When I was given the option, I didn’t even give my manager the chance to explain what I needed to do to overcome the PIP. I asked them how much do I get if I sign to leave and can they send me the link.

I talked to my wife and I signed within the hour.

I knew someone would hire me either full time or at least throw a consulting contract my way (I worked on Professional Services).

Let’s just say I had multiple opportunities to choose from before my paid out PTO had elapsed let alone my severance
All "credits" are phantom.

Credits are an illusion of one that makes it look like $company are doing something. But in reality the company is still polluting the environment.

Credits don't make the toxic plumes from manufacturing chimneys go away, nor do companies care.

They're more happy to pay the fines and continue than so.
Many people flash the emporia vue with espHome
Because corporations won't buy the fancy chat bot if there's a chance it will occasionally use slurs in it's interactions with their customers.
So... your example is a developer of HA stating that he sees major flaws with how they're distributing his package, and that he has absolutely no interest in supporting users that pull his code in a way that is unmaintainable by him.

YOU believe he should support this anyway, because of various "we promise end-users won't reach out to you" which is comically incorrect because history has shown repeatedly that a user's first step when something is broken is to google package_name broken - which will absolutely turn up the author's name.

BECAUSE he doesn't want to support his software being repackaged in a way he believes isn't supportable, you're upset. You want him to support your unicorn config because that's what you want to do, and his refusal to comply makes him a bad person.

Thank you for reinforcing EXACTLY why open source devs burn out. He has a workflow that he is willing and able to support and doesn't want to support anything outside of that. Your response is: but you need to do it for me because it's what I want.
A "Starbucks run" was the "smoke break" of the upper middle class.

No people in offices means no need for an upper middle class smoke break.

Straightforward, really.
The western idea of DEI has always puzzled me ever since I first came across it (or at least the D portion of DEI, which in my mind is the most important one).

I'm a Serb by blood and grew up in and have lived in Indonesia for the majority of my life, and I went to an international school with kids from quite literally every single corner of the earth, many of them being some exotic mix of various ethnicities.

Despite that, many of us are actually amazingly similar in many ways - We have a very distinct int'l kid accent that we all share, we grew up with extremely similar experiences, listening to the same music, being exposed to all the same things. Despite the superficial differences, I actually wouldn't call us a very diverse group at all when you really look at us. Some years later when I was studying, I met an int'l girl from the Bahamas and I was amazed at how similar her and my life were in many ways, despite being a literal ocean apart in completely different islands/nations. I had infinitely more in common with her than any other Serb I've ever met, yet alone the Dutch people I've met in my move to the Netherlands.

When I moved to NL, I instantly noticed that my friends and I were very different to the people there. Yet if some HR person would interview me, a white-skinned guy, and then my best friend, a black-skinned guy who has African/Japanese ancestry, I'd definitely be placed in the same "bucket" as the white Dutchies around me and my friend with the black Dutchies, despite him and I actually having identical experiences and mindsets and not really having anything in common with the Dutchies. This is, of course, understandable as an initial reaction, but my problem is that all the DEI shenanigans never get past that initial surface-level nonsense. I will probably never be labelled as anything other than "generic white guy" or perhaps at a stretch sometimes, the "eastern european guy".

I guess what I'm trying to get at in this strange ramble is that ultimately DEI should be focused on diversity of thought, and not just superficial characteristics, yet it never works out that way. Often the exact opposite, in fact, where viewpoints that don't match the superficial characteristics are often swatted away since those situations are harder to navigate than the cookie-cutter approach.
If someone gets stabbed in the eye, we find out about it. So our statistics on eye-stabbing are probably accurate.

We literally have no idea how many xz-style compromises are out there in the wild. We got really lucky with xz - it was only found because the backdoor was sloppy with performance and a microsoft employee got curious. But we have no data on all the times we got unlucky. How many packages in the linux ecosystem are compromised in this way? Maybe none? Maybe lots? We just don't know.
It’s a great metric at the moment for the reasons that you’ve given. We are living in a period of crisis and instability. Just like in that time, we are close to yet another global war. The difference is whether or not nuclear weapons will keep things from further escalating.
IBM Finds Home in Bedford‐Stuyvesant (1971)
"As I said in my original comment, AM receivers are commonplace, but that's the only thing going in AM's favour."

Thanks, you're correct. And as I've said elsewhere that's why it's being mandated.
I cannot read German, but wouldn't this be considered an attack on NATO ? I think I remember the US State Dept stating that not long after the war began.
Just because something is written on a road sign does not make it magically copyright or license free.

I know a business which has to pay a nominal $1 license fee for the names of its own stores to a map maker, simply because the business has lost any evidence that it had the names before the map maker put them in the map.
I predict that high profile employers will soon start forcing job applicants to go through an identity verification service like Clear before allowing them to even fill out an application form.

https://www.clearme.com/clear-verified
> I think OpenBSD stands out without a Wayland plan, but maybe I'm wrong there.

check this out - https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2023-matthieu-wayla...
> [The North Korean missile] was bursting with the latest foreign technology. Most of the electronic parts had been manufactured in the US and Europe over the past few years. There was even a US computer chip made as recently as March 2023. This meant that North Korea had illicitly procured vital weapons components, snuck them into the country, assembled the missile, and shipped it to Russia in secret, where it had then been transported to the frontline and fired - all in a matter of months.
I think most people (including TFA author) just don't realize what bollards actually cost to install. They're not simple little poles that can be plopped on top of concrete, they have to actually be built into the foundation. Ironically the @WorldBollard association account TFA links to illustrates it best: https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1384527600639434755 and https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1635595240508735490

That's why the US is full of corrugated steel barriers TFA maligns by association. They use tension cables mounted at the ends to provide the rigidity, requiring just two holes to dig instead of an entire ditch.
The proper way to think of reversible computing is that you just write everything down in a single-static-assignment ledger and never erase anything except for the tail end of the ledger. This can be accomplished with a multi-tape machine where writing down a value duplicates the current tape except the changed value. And once you're done with the computation, you can erase one tape at a time, starting with the most recent duplicate. So it can simulate a Turing machine. This implementation isn't as efficient as possible, but it's a good mental model for the absurdity required for reversibility.
Sure, but the point is that long run real economic growth made it possible for a big-but-not-biggest US company to invest at a level attainable only by the US government in wartime 80 years ago.
I am trying to say in the very near future LLMs will be smart enough to not necessitate a middle man for prompt experimentation.
I gave the price for a new one from the retailers (they somehow still have 1 or 2 of 1155 in stock).

There are, of course refurb/secondhand 3770 out there, but...

Just let me copy-paste one of the lots out there:

$33 e3 1270 v2 SR0P6 3.5-3.9mhz tdp 69w = core i7 3770k
$39 e3 1275 v2 SR0PA 3.5-3.9mhz tdp 77w = core i7 3770k with Intel HD Graphics P4000
$44 core i7 3770 SR0PK 3.4-3.9mhz tdp 77w
$43 core i7 3770S SR0РN 3.1-3.9mhz tdр 65w
When you said "a few hours", I was expecting 3, not 6(!)
> However, the videogame industry in its entirety was dead-lifted from its premature grave by one "Nintendo Family Computer".

Consoles maybe, but I don't think that the early 8/16-bit microcomputers were affected by the crash of 1983, and in any case the crash was mostly a US phenomenon with minor effects on other regions.
I'm not getting into what's "masculine" or "feminine" because I believe that's contextually constructed nonsense, but I will say that some people use "nonviolent communication" tropes in a metaphorically violent way. I've also seen it used well to improve relationships and outcomes.
General Motors, 2009
Yeah, they're a great bit of infrastructure to protect people from cars.

Sometimes they can cause injuries that wouldn't happen otherwise, though: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/kin...

In general, I'm in favor of a lot more bollard use than we currently enjoy in the US broadly (or Seattle in particular).
Silicon Valley Bank

Revlon

Avaya

Talen

Hertz
The people doing the interview are being paid but the company itself isn't making any money from the interview process either and it's dedicating resources that could be more productively used elsewhere for immediate results.

Both parties are making short term sacrifices in hopes of finding a mutually beneficial relationship.
The barrier to entry for programmers on projects like PostgreSQL and FreeBSD is high, with good and bad results. It seems you have to be very committed to the project (which may involve support from one’s employer) to join and contribute. It requires deep understanding of the codebase and preparedness to deal with fallout when changes inevitably cause problems. That’s good in that the developers are highly invested in building a quality product.
But the high barrier to entry makes it difficult to attract new developers, and it is very difficult for those with a passing interest to get fixes and improvements into the codebase.
See the linked pdf for data on non-fatal injuries, as I said in my original comment

> The same general trend holds for injuries
The cost of bollards is pretty low.
"Bionic eye" discovers Plato's final resting place
You can go to Youtube yourself and look at the size of a GBU-39 explosion.
> xkds's opinions are always right; they are just not always correct.

So the missing c stands for correct?
Enron, 2007
The math doesn't make sense, 30B on a million GPUs = 30k per GPU. They're expensive but not that expensive, and definitely not in bulk.
People will just buy and sell verified accounts like what happens on every platform.